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Friday, November 18, 2016

Zombie Picnic - A Suburb of Earth

It’s been two weeks since I’ve done a review lately.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming up very soon, so it’s to do a review for
some albums. This afternoon, I received a package in the mail of a band that
just completely took me off the edge of my seat. It was this cross between
Progressive, Post, Kraut, and Space Rock. A four-piece from Limerick, Ireland
called Zombie Picnic.

They have released their debut album entitled, A Suburb of Earth. The band considers
Brian Fitzgerald on Bass, James Griffin on Guitar, Dave Tobin on Guitar, and
Brendan Miller on Drums. It is a journey to the infinite worlds inspired by the
beat poets of the 1950s and the classic of science fiction who is known for his
work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur
C. Clarke.

The music is very mysterious, cosmic, and exaggerating. I
can hear the influences between The Fierce and The Dead, CAN, NEU!, Radiohead,
Hawkwind, Mogwai, and Elephant9 with Reine Fiske. They know their influences
well to the spot on here. The six-string textures of the duo between Griffin
and Tobin, is the “Holy Shit!” momentum. It’s almost as if they are new
captains along with Fitzgerald and Miller’s incredible rhythm section on both
Bass and Drums.

I love how they would use reverb/delay effects of the tone
setting of going into the outer limits of space, time, and poetry combined. It
is a real treat for what the four-piece have brought. It feels as if you are in
hyper-space with a blaring soundtrack inside your mind with four instrumental
pieces that clock in 7, 8, 10, and 11-minutes. It was for me a real surprise.

Not just because it’s an awesome debut, but the way the
four-piece have worked really hard and made sure note-by-note, space-by-space
Zombie Picnic took some baby steps to create an outer space/milky way
adventure. With creativity, cosmic, and thumping rhythmic adventures, A Suburb of Earth is the album I
recommend. And to close out in the words of the episode, Space Madness from The Ren
& Stimpy Show, “All right Space
Cadets! Prepare to hurtle through the cosmos!”

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I'm a blogger/freelance writer from Houston, TX who writes album reviews because I enjoy it. Even though, I'm not the best writer, there is no stop sign for me. I have a love of Progressive Rock music, Jazz Fusion, and Early Heavy Metal music from the '60s to the early '80s. I went to HCC (Houston Community College) for nine years and have completed my degree in Music in Performance: Jazz Studies. I've been writing Progressive Rock and Symphonic Metal reviews starting back in 2008 on my blogsite and it never gets old.